POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Municipalities across the county are holding elections on Tuesday. Residents will cast ballots in a number of races including city council and commission seats to mayoral spots and ...

Levy (1845): David Levy Yulee was one of the first senators of Florida when it became a state. He was also the first person ...

Tucked away in a modest shopping plaza in Lakeland, Florida, Dena’s Place is serving up cheeseburgers so magnificent they might just ruin all other burgers for you forever.

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Eight teen football players were arrested after stealing thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise on Sunday from a Dick's Sporting Goods in Florida.

Eight teenagers, all youth football players from Philadelphia, have found out the hard way that Florida doesn't mess around ...

The preferred route for the southern segment of the Central Polk Parkway East would bisect a Dundee orange grove covered by a ...

Sharon Garrett has an entire room in her home dedicated to preserving the land she has lived on for all of her 73 years. Inside, organized stacks of maps, newspaper clippings, letters, binders, and ...

State transportation officials will be in Davenport Thursday night to take public comment on plans for a new stretch of the ...

A stretch of Central Florida that many families have called home for years now sits at the center of one of the region’s largest proposed transportation projects. Thirty eight homes and five ...

Residents of Saddlebag Lake Resort near Lake Wales are gearing up to fight a proposed 855-acre sand mine just west of the ...

Polk County deputies arrested a man who was caught on camera walking naked down a street in near freezing temperatures. Body Language Experts Say Marjorie Taylor Greene’s CNN Apology For 'Toxic ...